How to Play Battleshots

Last Updated: September 6, 2019

An instruction set tells you how to play the BattleShot drinking game. Depending on the options of your game style, you may alter the following instructions to your liking. Battleshots is a rendition of the traditional game Battleships, with the involvement of alcohol.

Steps

1
Prepare for the battle. Sit opposite from your opponent facing each other. Assemble your BattleShot game unit, laying your board facing you. Finally, attach your privacy shield to your shot board with the coordinate map also facing you (this should create an L shape).
2
Secretly arrange your BattleShots.
- Place ships on your shot board. Do this either horizontally or vertically.
- You should have three shot glasses for the battleship; two for the destroyers, and one shot glass for the submarine (6 total).
- Signal your opponent that you are ready to begin once all shots are secretly placed.
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3
Flip a coin. Determine whether heads or tails designates who plays the first turn.
4
Call your shot.
- On your turn, call out the coordinates where you believe your opponent has positioned one of their ships. (example- A5)
- To track your guesses, mark your dry erase coordinate map with X's where a target is hit and O's where a target is missed
5
Handle a hit. Using a dry erase marker, mark your coordinate map with an X where you have hit your target-your opponent's BattleShot ship. Your opponent must drink the shot.
6
Handle a miss. Using a dry erase marker, mark your coordinate map with an O where you have missed your target. This will keep you from guessing the same location twice.
7
Sink all your opponent's BattleShots to win. The loser must consume all remaining unsunk BattleShots.

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